Hammer Museum

Poetry: James Galvin

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800

James Galvin has published several collections of poetry, including As Is, X: Poems and Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His honors include a Discovery/The Nation award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POETRY A series of readings organized and hosted by ...

UCLA Department of Art Lectures: John Knight

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800

John Knight has exhibited recently at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008); Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (2008); Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009); and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2009). This fall, he will have an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ. ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hou...

Creating Comics, Creating Worlds

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0800

AGES 10-14 Following a brief tour of The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, workshop attendees will write and draw their own creation stories in comic form, learning how to create powerful story-telling with comics and sequential art. Dave Kellett is the Harvey Award-nominated co-author of How to Make Webcomics, and is the cartoonist behind the daily all-ages comic strip Sheldon at SheldonComics.com. He holds two Masters degrees in the history of cartooning. HAMMER KIDS The Hammer’s col...

Robert Gober & Donna De Salvo

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800

Heat Waves in a Swamp curator Robert Gober is a sculptor who has exhibited widely in both the U.S and abroad. In 2001 he was chosen to represent the United States in the 49th Venice Biennale. His other curatorial work includes The Meat Wagon at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (2005), and Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, and Nancy Shaver: Black and White Photographs 1975-77 at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (1999). Donna De Salvo is chief curator and associate director of programs ...

Church and State: The Role of Spirituality in Politics

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800

Frank Schaeffer, author of the New York Times best selling memoir, Crazy For God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back, joins us to discuss his fiery evangelical past. The son of theologian Francis Schaeffer, Frank came of age with the Christian right, growing up in an evangelical/fundamentalist world with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson at the kitchen table. He eventually broke ranks with the powerful political/religious moveme...

Charles Burchfield

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art on view at the Museum. Charles Burchfield’s Dangerous Brooding from Conventions for Abstract Thoughts 1917 Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss. Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.

Some Favorite Writers: Yiyun Li

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800

Yiyun Li is the winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. She is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which was selected for a Whiting Award, and recently The Vagrants. Li teaches at the UC Davis and lives in Oakland, California. SOME FAVORITE WRITERS This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Sim...

New American Writing: Dylan Landis & Mary Otis

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800

Dylan Landis is the author of the novel-in-stories Normal People Don't Live Like This, a finalist for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. She has won Poets & Writers' California Exchange Award and published stories in Bomb, Tin House and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Mary Otis is the author of the story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries and her work has appeared in the Best New American Voices anthology, Los Angeles Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Berkeley Literary Jou...

Double Tide

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800

Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart is known for creating beautiful, meditative films that incorporate subtle movement and a static, photographic gaze to examine her subjects. Her new film, Double Tide, documents the work of a female clam digger in the mudflats of coastal Maine and is filmed on the rare occasion in which low tide occurs twice within daylight hours—once at dawn and once at dusk. Expanding the focus of Lockhart’s recent films Lunch Break (2008) and Exit (2008), Double Tide creates a port...

Family Flicks: Oliver!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive Appropriate for ages 4+ A timeless classic that Roger Ebert has called “a treasure of a movie … one of those rare films like The Wizard of Oz,” this freewheeling musical adaptation of Dickens’ classic novel Oliver Twist has been delighting kids and their parents for over 40 years. (1968, 146 MIN., DIR. CAROL REED) FAMILY FLICKS Funded by the UCLA Arts Initiative and co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive The UCL...

Desirée Holman

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art on view at the Museum. Desirée Holman’s Hammer Project 2009 Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss. Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.

Rob Fischer

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischer’s use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature. While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of t...